Feds admit radioactive xenon-133 from Fukushima detected TWO days ago in Washington State

U.S. officials detected the presence of a radioactive isotope in California on Friday that appeared to come from the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan…

U.S. officials say the levels are consistent with their expectations and pose no risk to human health.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department said in a statement a radiation monitor in Sacramento, Calif., detected minuscule quantities of the radioactive isotope xenon-133. The readings validated similar ones from March 16 and 17 taken from monitors in Washington state, they said. …

Xenon-133 (brand name Xeneisol, ATC code V09EX03) is an isotope of Xenon. It is a radionuclide that is inhaled to assess pulmonary function, and to image the lungs. It is also often used to image blood flow, particularly in the brain.

Fred Fep
I am sure there is much more then JUST xenon-133 in this plume ! Reactors do no produce just one isotope element, Why do you think they would say they have track the one that is unlikely to cause harm ?

Check out the 3 locations in top left corner and click LOOP button for each of these to see whats up.
You can choose iodine, xenon or caesium clouds from this radar also checkout the right side of this page for some more radars. Stay indoors while your area is affected and wear gloves this summer while doing lawn care. Stay out of the rain and snow ! Don’t let the moisture touch your skin ! Long live the humans !

Lol. My family is retarded and says there is no problem with Japan. My mother is more concerned about her (Toyota) car parts. She says it will be impossible to find a part now. I said what about the people getting sick and dying? What about you mom ? What about your grandchildren? She cares about car parts and what i told her about car parts is ( Toyota is made in the USA. ) You must watch USA news huh ?

We need more eugenics to weed out all the idiots im affraid. People will believe a myth in this world for their entire life before they believe the scientific facts. Someone could spend millions of dollars to prove a fact and someone who even went to college for 4 yrs and graduated in top of their class still cannot make an understanding hypothesis about a simple subject. Something besides this Xenon-133 is in the air and I think it’s stupidity.

It is not just iodine-131 and cesium-137 that are in the ocean, in Japan’s foods, in the water supply, in the air, etc…There are *dozens* of radioisotopes floating about. This is a partial list of isotopes that are most certainly in and around Tokyo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCWGc173ic&feature=player_embedded
In a nuclear explosion the radioactive solids and radioactive gases both escape into the environment. In an operating nuclear reactor, steel vessels, corrosive-prone cladding and pipes and the containment building itself keep some, but not all, gaseous radioactive chemicals from escaping into the air and the soil and water.

But every single radioactive gas produced at the containment-less Fukushima reactors and outdoor swimming ponds for fuel rods has escaped. These gases escaped via leaky or manually opened pipes and vents and from cracked or melted fuel rods that blew out gases created via low or re-criticality fissioning or neutron activity from plutonium or uranium.

The leaked gases are no different in nature than what is released into the environment if you conducted an open air hydrogen nuclear (thermonuclear) explosion in the rain – the solid radioactive chemicals mostly would be suppressed, but the gases would leak out and float around an entire country or hemisphere. The gases would later precipitate into radioactive solids – or stay as radioactive gas in air.

Since all of the above radioisotopes are or once were gases, they had (and as long as they are being still released at Fukushima, they still have) the potential to travel large distances from the reactors, even further than Tokyo. Radioactive solids attach to dust particles and can travel across the globe with ease. That even includes plutonium.http://www.idealist.ws/index.php#statecrisis

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